Enhance Your World Travel Plans With Wine Making In Tuscany

Many people desire to travel parts of the world in their lifetime. Some want to travel to the orient, some want to safari in Africa. Many people just want to travel to another country and see how other cultures live and prosper. If you are planning a trip to Europe any time soon, why not enhance your world travel plans with wine making in Tuscany? Tuscany is a beautiful area full of lush green vineyards and rolling hills. It is filled with great architecture and wonderful sights. Plus, it is in Italy, one of the most beautiful and history filled countries in the world.

Italy is one of the world's top wine producers, second only to France. Most of the wine produced in Italy is from the region of Tuscany. Tuscany sits in the center of Italy, with Rome a little to the south and the fashion capital Milan far north. Tuscany is home to ten provinces, including Pisa, famous for its leaning tower, and has the city of Florence, where you can find the famous Uffizi Gallery.

If you are a wine lover, you will want to visit a vineyard or two, or maybe even more than that, while on your trip to the Tuscan region. In each of the ten provinces, you will find at least one "wine road", and in some provinces, three. Each road is known for the production of wine from a certain grape. You can follow each road and stop into the companies and wine cellars open to the public for a special Italian treat.

There are several travel firms that offer a tour of Tuscany specifically for the wine lover. These tours are devoted mainly to the region of Tuscany and its wine making. If you are unsure of how to tour the Tuscan countryside on your own, one of these guided tours is sure to fit your interest. The tour will be full of people with the same interests as you and your knowledge of wines can be shown and gained from these tours.

If you are interested in the history of Tuscany and how it came to be the wine capital of Italy, there is a story to share. About 800 BC, the Etruscans settled into Tuscany and quickly found wild vines of fruit growing on the hillsides. These fruits, grapes, were carefully harvested and made into wines for drinking.

Several varieties of grapes are grown in the region and have been for unnumbered years. Some of the grapes go to create single type of wine, such as the Cabernet Sauvignon. The Cabernet Sauvignon grape is grown strictly for that wine as is the Lambrusco grape. The Chianti can be made with a single grape of Sangiovese variety. Other wines are made from a blend of grape varieties. Honestly, the history of the wine itself can be as interesting or more interested than the history of the region from which the wine comes.

If you are planning a trip to Europe, especially Italy, you should enhance you world travel plans with wine making in Tuscany.